“What’s great about being a parent in New York is that there is an embarrassment of riches here,” she said. “Almost every museum has something going on for children. The hardest thing to do is narrow it down.”

Here are her top three events:

•Armor Week at Wave Hill in the Bronx, where children can make castles and other items. [Through Sunday, except Friday]

•Engineering Week at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, where working engineers lead hands-on activities like building paper bridges, towers and boats. [Through Friday]

• For big kids: “Birmingham 1963,” a story of the struggle for civil rights and based on oral histories. Performed by female members of the theater troupe Downtown Art at 61 East Fourth Street. [Friday and Saturday]

• For little kids: “Handa’s Surprise,” a play set in Kenya and accompanied by music and puppetry at the New 42nd Street Studios. [Through Sunday]

In 1934, a few months after Prohibition ended, a wine and liquor distributor secured a Manhattan-side vault and brought in 5,000 cases of alcohol.

“Visitors crowded the taproom,” read an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “musicians played Viennese waltzes, champagne corks popped and nobody remembered that above the trolleys and the elevators, the automobiles and the rushing pedestrians still hurried back and forth.”

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